alt Hacker NewsOne place where I find the Flash models surprisingly bad is Google Search's "AI Mode".
A recent example - I searched for how to unsubscribe from Pearson emails. Google Search "AI Mode" confidently gave me a sequence of steps along the lines of Settings > Profile > Email preferences > Unsubscribe.
Of course, I looked for an unsubscribe link before asking Google. None of those options existed. The correct answer was there is no way to unsubscribe through the account, so I just blockthe emails instead.
I've run into this pattern quite a few times. AI Mode seems to make up things all the time.
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https://www.pearson.com/privacy-center/privacy-notices/full-...
>We will not send marketing emails to a user who has opted out of receiving them. Any marketing communications we send will include an unsubscribe link at the end of the email.
I don't think this is AI's fault. This is Pearson's publishing incorrect information and the only way to really know they are a bunch of lying assholes is to have an account and try to unsubscribe from it.
AI didn't make it up, Pearson's did.
It's not the models, it's the guardrails.
It's obvious that the Google Search AI Mode encourages the model to give an answer without spending unnecessary cycles investigating deeply.
They also heavily encourage keeping the context short. For example, it will remove the option to start a new turn after a small number of turns, depending on the topic.
It definitely makes things up all the time, but it gets it right surprisingly often. I really like it.
I think that's just a limitation on the size of the model. I'm pretty sure that they use a pretty small model in those summaries to save money, which naturally makes them a little less smart.